The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-10-15

8 farmer sells all me produces from
> SO to 200 per cent. higher than HI
9 ever dreamed of In free-tradt
n times and that every domesti,
? article he buys is from fifty to tive
e hundred per cent. cheaper, and a
the same time from so to 500 pei
cent better In quality. "Facts O
n equal potency can be cited without
:. limit in favor of the policy of pro
0 lection In its effects upon all the
. other Industries Of the country.
/, The first proposition is answered
by quotations from the market re.
/, port of the day of his speech.
Wheat a 60 to 10 cts.
= Corn % 42to AS cts.
+ OatstS 2e.te 80 cts.
Rye from 4ato,6Os cts.
Lard $50 to 6.62 per cwt.
Butter IS to 10 dairy per lb,
Wool 50 to, 81 per lb.
Fine beef cattle from $50 to 400
per cwt.
The farmers of the country
know how much improvement in
the price there has been in the
great bulk of his productions. l
need not tell him, he never saw
worse times under revenue tariff
than he has experienced under the
IhighesL, protection tariff. But it
has occurred to q constituent of
mine to call attention to the fact,
that, if the first proposition were
true, that a protective tariff had
increased the price of all that
is bought by the rest Of mankind
from the farmers from 80 to 200
per cent. How does 1t benefit the
wage Garner to make him pay
from one half to two times as much
more for his eggs, his chickens, his
mutton, his beef, his fruit, his mush
and milk: and his bread and butter.
We DeimSefats sometimes COM
plain of \ protection, because it in
creases in many instances unneces-
sarily the price of such articles as
come from abroad. But here is a
Republican leader, boasting that it
also increases the price of every
article that our own farmers raise
for us, Let, him get out of that de-
lemma.s Now for the other pro-
positions Every domestic article
he buvs fssfrom 80 to 200 per cent.
cheaper, Cheapness is what high
protective, tariff men have been
fighting. But dirt cheap is dear to
this thearness. My arithmetic
taught me tnat one hundred per
cent. Of any number was equal to
that number, nr the. whole of it.
That il, you sold any thing for 100
per cent less than it cost, you got
nothing for it. That was in the
days before protection had increas-
ed intelligence to such an extent
that you could take 200 per cent.
away from the price of an article
and have enough left to protect the
labor engaged in the manufacture
Of that article from the pauper
labor OF Europe. But the farmer
Is not the only one of our fellow
according to this Republi.
can Statesman, whom q protective
Tariff has given 200 per cent. going
TO market, and 200 per cent. com
ing from market and 500 per cent.
while there, Let us quote him
again. "Fects ofequal potency can
be citedsWithout limit in favor of
he poiiey-uf protection in its effects
upon all ths other industries of the
n, 49,
Grandp glorious, sublime protec-
ioni Making everything from SO
% 200 per cent. dearer-and every
hing, from 80 to 200 per cent cheap ::
3EDm so. TO 2O0 per cent.
,ettef. How CAN'T be? But the .
census ofl8sO does not show such
prosperity in our agri-
Ohio. We had that year
.47, ,ls9 farms of an average of 80
.cres each and of the total value of
l27,i98,353 having implements
md machinery worth $S0,52l, ,lsO
at.capital of $l,l58-Ol8,533
lot inclading live stock which .
mounted to $lOs, ,7O7, ,7SO a total of .
i, ,26l, 726,263. The estimated val .
le ofaH farm productions sold con-
umed' or on hand for 1879, amount 4
ID to $l56,777,153 which did not ex- ?
eed III per cent. on the total cap :
tai invested, without deducting Z
for labor taxes, interest .
Insurance. or repairs, There were ;
ngaged in the occupations of ag- !;
iculture in the whole state ut that |;
ime 397,7sS persons of all ages,
rom 10 years upwards. If we al
Ow one man and a half on an av- /,
rage to each farm il WOuld re.